LGBTQ+ people have been tegral to our progrs as a Commonwealth and the makg of Virgia’s history. While LGBTQ+ people have lived here for centuri, the earlit wrten rerds only acknowledge their existence an effort to crimalize them. Fightg agast erasure and visibily, LGBTQ+ people have also played pivotal rol the creatn of Virgia’s culture leadg up to and beyond the gay rights movement of the mid-20th Century. Virgia’s LGBTQ+ history prents unique perspectiv on life the Commonwealth and offers more clivy the reuntg of Amerin history.
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Lookg through our llectn for signs of the long stggle for gay rights. * museum of lgbt culture and history *
Amerin gay liberatn activist Marsha P Johnson (1945 ‑ 1992), wearg headband, and an unintified woman facepat, on 7th Avenue South (between Grove and Christopher streets), attend the send annual Stonewall anniversary march (Gay Liberatn Day), later known as Gay Pri, New York, New York, June 21, 1971.
20th December 1989: Portra of Amerin thor, AIDS mpaigner and gay rights activist Larry Kramer, founr of ACT‑UP and the Gay Men's Health Crisis group, posg ont of a book shelf his home, New York Cy.
While the ia for the mm had already been perlatg among activists for years before those meetgs started, was the slew of urt s seekg relig exemptns for bs and anizatns that did not want to serve LGBTQ people followg the Supreme Court’s 2015 landmark gay marriage cisn that prompted them to move forward about four years ago, Burns said.
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The mm will be one of many cultural iativ dited to shg a light on LGBTQ history: Burns poted to the Stonewall Natnal Mm and Archiv Fort Lrdale, Florida, San Francis’s GLBT Historil Society and Berl’s Gay Mm as stutns dog siar work, along wh Manhattan’s LGBT Communy Center Natnal History Archive and the Lbian Herstory Archiv Brooklyn. Follow along on a gay wrer’s adventur at Pri around the world; read about a bisexual woman’s journey to The Gambia to vis her stnchly relig fay; and hear om a non-genr-nformg traveler about unexpected challeng and triumphs on the road. Bee while mastream books and schools seldom tell tal of queer history, stutns like ONE Natnal Gay & Lbian Archiv and The Legacy Walk proudly specialize dog jt that.